The Fatal Land

War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 18th Century, British, Americas, United States
Cover of the book The Fatal Land by Prof. Matthew P. Dziennik, Yale University Press
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Author: Prof. Matthew P. Dziennik ISBN: 9780300213508
Publisher: Yale University Press Publication: June 28, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press Language: English
Author: Prof. Matthew P. Dziennik
ISBN: 9780300213508
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication: June 28, 2015
Imprint: Yale University Press
Language: English
More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.
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More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests and, in doing so, transformed the most maligned region of the British Isles into an important center of the British Empire.

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